Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

hey tech folks:
please stop pushing discord. i get it. it works. please help us with something better, or we will be in a situation a while from now where suddenly we are all panicking because discord is shutting down or deleting old data as we all go "wow who could have seen this coming" and put our hands in the air

What constitutes a *large* Fediverse instance?

(boosts welcome)

Periodic reminder: public corporations are engines of inequity.

That's literally all they exist to do - extract from the many and bestow unto their shareholders. They are not benign.

@vantablack I'm usually a fan of Daring Fireball, but that is a take that fundamentally misunderstands why this place exists.

People are looking at the weird leftist anti-corporate social network and complaining that we're mistrusting the company responsible for us leaving corporate social networks.

We're building communities that exist outside corporate control. We're reclaiming the internet for individuals.

Facebook will never have a place in that, and I don't understand why that's hard to understand.

Invitation to discuss:

If you were to reformulate the Anti-Meta Pact
1) In a general way (not applicable to one specific company, but rather any entity that displays the same undesirable attributes as this company), and
2) Framed in positive terms ("we want X", "we believe Y" rather than "we don't support Z and oppose Q"), what would you say?

#Facebook #privacy #federation #defederation

(Inspired by my exchange with @fenndev on Loomio)

Boosts welcome.

Clapping hands emojis between each word of a post: can we not do this please? And this is me being nice.
Imagine listening to a post with the words "clapping hands" or e.g. "clapping hands with light skin tone" inserted between each word. That's what it's like when you use a screen reader and come across something like that.
So it'd be like this:
it clapping hands with light skin tone is clapping hands with light skin tone very clapping hands with light skin tone annoying.

I have a few polls about #meta #project92 in the fediverse for you.

A Thread:

My stance towards Meta is that the Fediverse needs two types of servers:

1. Lobby servers that explicitly federate with Meta for the purposes of moving people from Meta to the rest of the Fediverse

2. Exit servers that explicitly defederate with Meta for the purposes of keeping portions of the Fediverse out of reach from Meta

Both approaches not only can co-exist with each other, they might just be complementary.

People who use Meta need a way to migrate towards a space that is friendly, easy-to-use, and allows them to port their social graph.

But People also need a space that’s free from Meta, and allows them to exist beyond the eye of Zuckerberg.

Guess what? People who use Meta now might want to be invisible to Meta later. And people who dislike Meta might need a bridge to contact friends and family through some mechanism that still allows them to communicate beyond Meta’s control.

And thankfully, the Fediverse allows for this.

Software Patents: "We urge all developers and supporters ... whether a student, open source maintainer, or enterprise ... to voice their opposition today to the proposed rules"

https://github.blog/2023-06-19-developers-need-the-right-to-challenge-junk-patents/

The IRS could recover $12 for every $1 spent on scrutinizing the ultra-wealthy's taxes

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-tax-audits-recover-12-dollars-for-every-dollar-spent-2023-6

#BusinessInsider #IRStaxaudits #ultrawealthy #taxrecovery #governmentrevenue #financialscrutiny #Politics #News

The Productivity Commission has today added to the piles and piles of evidence we have had for decades about the devastating consequences of persistent poverty.

There’s a clear and immediate solution and that’s an Income Guarantee paid for with a fair tax on the wealthiest few.

We should be trying to invent online social spaces that are much, much smaller, and I think it's possible to do this without losing the benefits of large social networks:

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2023/06/19/groups-should-go-small/

#SocialMediaDesign

HOW TO SPOT A DEEP FAKE:

1. You can't.

Don't think you can. You can spot clumsy ones, but you've already missed a dozen others. We're past the stage where even _expert_ practitioners can have a 100% success rate.

Instead, think about how to avoid taking action, or trusting someone, because of who they seem to be. Holding onto the fantasy that "I can spot 'em!" is harmful, and moves the onus of responsibility from collective to personal.

This is also true for #genAI, of course.